Manufacturing knit gloves



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. PEATFIELD, OF IPSVICH, MASSACHUSETTS.

MANUFACTURING KNIT GLOVES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,893, dated July 13, 18158.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PEATEIELD, of Ipswich, in the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Manufacture of Knitted Gloves; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, making part of thisspecification, in Which- Figure l, is a front view of a gloveillustrat-ing my improvement. Fig. 2, is a transverse section of thesame at the junction of the fingers with the hand.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts in both ligures.

The object of this invention is to produce Seamless knitted gloves bymachinery. The invention consists in knitting the hand of a glove andthe lingers and thumb thereof separately, each in circular form andconsequently Without seam and uniting them by knitting them together inthe manner hereinafter described.

The hand and the fingers and thumb having been knitted separately incircular machines with a sulicient number of loops dropped in one of thecourses of the hand to make an opening to receive the thumb; themarginal course of loops at the bottom of the fingers is united with themarginal course at the top of the hand by taking the end of the threadof each linger and with a common sewing-needle or needle of other formtaking it through the loops of the marginal course of the hand andthrough those of the marginal course of the finger in a manner to form auniting course of loops as represented in Fig. l, Where the marginalcourses of loops of the hand and one finger are represented in blackcolor, and the uniting course in red. The lingers are also united Witheach other in a similar manner by taking the thread of each through themarginal loops of the neXt one on either side of it at the parts a, a,Fig. 2, which require to be united. The lower marginal course of loopsof the thumb is attached to the marginal loops of the opening preparedfor it, in a similar manner.

I do not claim to be the inventor of a seamless knitted glove, as suchare knitted by hand. But- That I claim as my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The manufacture of seamless knitted gloves by knitting the hand and thefingers and thumb separately, and uniting them in the mannersubstantially as described.

J AMES PEATFIELD.

lVitnesses:

SAMUEL H. GREEN, ROBERT J ORDAN.

